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Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach
affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information.
In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations.
TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim.
The d…

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers' personal information | TechCrunch
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers, including Social Security numbers.

wow cool did Sentry just fucking HALF the spans included in our plan!?
gotta love when a company introduces a feature you never asked for and doubles the price on a feature you care about
cool cool cool, no action required indeed

Construction of non-generalized Reed-Solomon MDS codes based on systematic generator matrix
Shengwei Liu, Hongwei Liu, Bocong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20559 https://

Construction of non-generalized Reed-Solomon MDS codes based on systematic generator matrix
Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes are considered optimal because the minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The most prominent MDS codes are likely the generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. In 1989, Roth and Lempel constructed a type of MDS code that is not a GRS code (referred to as non-GRS). In 2017, Beelen et al. introduced twisted Reed-Solomon (TRS) codes and demonstrated that many MDS TRS codes are indeed non-GRS. Following this, the definition of TRS co…

the City just put in Stage 1 restrictions (we're very lucky here that we have abundant water resources, many places on Vancouver Island have restrictions almost immediately every summer)
So the clock is ticking! If we get to Stage 2 and I haven't filled the pond yet, I'll be prohibited from doing so until the rains come! We can only "top up" pools and ponds in Stage 2. And (god forbid) we get into Stage 3 or 4, the pond will have to be left to dry up. (at which point I would probably just use it as a watering source for the gardens)
I don't think we've ever reached Stage 3. The last time we got to Stage 2 was about 5 years ago I think, after the Heat Dome.
I would be surprised if we got to Stage 2 this year. It has been dry, but not excessively hot, so hopefully our resources can hold through August.
The good news is... I'm close to at least filling the intake bay and wetland filter.
Once the rest of the rock/pebble comes tomorrow I'll immediately start moving the rock into those two holes as quickly as I can, and once done, I'll start filling them with water so I can test out the pumps.
I might set up a temporary path for the water to recirculate through the intake bay and filter, avoiding the pond. That way those two parts can start to grow good-bacteria for the filter while I work on the big pond.
#pondlife #poolpond #backyardPrpject #diy #rock #labour

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Filling in the semantics for intuitionistic conditional logic
Brendan Dufty, Jim de Groot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11972 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11972…

Filling in the semantics for intuitionistic conditional logic
We prove completeness results for a wide variety of intuitionistic conditional logics. We do so by first using a duality to transfer algebraic completeness to completeness with respect to conditional Esakia spaces, a topologised version of a conditional Kripke frame. We then use so-called fill-ins to obtain completeness results with respect to classes conditional of Kripke frames. The fill-ins close the gap between conditional Esakia spaces, which do not have a canonical underlying frame, and c…

If a sixth grader circulated an AI video of himself flying a jet and laughingly dumping feces on his classmates, it would lead to immediate suspension and possible expulsion. Threats are taken more seriously by our schools than in our government.

On some examples and counterexamples about weighted Lagrange interpolation with Exponential and Hermite weights
Patricia Szokol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18029 https://

On some examples and counterexamples about weighted Lagrange interpolation with Exponential and Hermite weights
The famous Bernstein conjecture about optimal node systems of classical polynomial Lagrange interpolation, standing unresolved for over half a century, was solved by T. Kilgore in 1978. Immediately following him, also the additional conjecture of Erdős was solved by deBoor and Pinkus. These breakthrough achievements were built on a fundamental auxiliary result on nonsingularity of derivative (Jacobian) matrices of certain interval maxima in function of the nodes. After the above breakthrough, …

Gravitational scattering of ejecta in the Didymos system cannot explain the evolution of the binary's orbital period
Harrison Agrusa, Camille Chatenet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20197

Gravitational scattering of ejecta in the Didymos system cannot explain the evolution of the binary's orbital period
In the first few months following the DART impact on Dimorphos, it appears that the orbital period dropped by ${\sim} 30$ s in addition to the immediate ${\sim}30 $ min drop. This effect has been attributed to ``binary hardening,'' whereby the binary's orbital period would have gradually decreased as Dimorphos continuously scattered bound ejecta out of the system and lost angular momentum. We investigated this hypothesis with the goal of constraining the conditions that would lead to a gradual …

Good Morning #Canada
In August 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec could not legally secede from Canada unilaterally. The court's decision affirmed that any secession would require a constitutional amendment negotiated with the federal government and other provinces. This ruling stemmed from a reference case initiated by the federal government following a close referendum on Quebec sovereignty in 1995. Although Quebec was represented at the Supreme Supreme Court hearing, they did not participate in presenting arguments. They essentially ignored the ruling and planned a future referendum, which never happened.
This ruling established an important precedent that Alberta separatists should pay attention to. But details such as this ruling, aboriginal rights, or common sense seem to escape their attention spans.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/supreme-court-says-quebec-can-t-separate-unilaterally-1.159509